We Can Reach Our Destination, But We're Still a Ways Away...

"Way to shield the hated heat."

I fucking hate Halloween.

Cover Star: Scar
Headlining Band: The Dream Syndicate

Laws Of Man Are Just Pretend

Halloween tomorrow
Used to be my favorite holiday
Fuck it

Election Tuesday
Panic attack
Berlin or Brooklyn?

History shows that "seven points ahead"
Don't mean shit
When shit can be bought
Or stolen

Halloween.
Is. Shit. Now.

Goblins are way more palatable than John McCain
And THAT chick

I'll take a Goblin any day
In fact I do
Surround myself with them

Cover Star: Jenise
Headlining Band: QOTSA

And She Said She'd Stick Around Until The Bandages Came Off

Last cigarette.

Last drink.

Rough Wednesday night...

Only Tom Waits makes sense right now.

Cover Star: Kendall
Headlining Band: Tom Waits

For Sarah

I was talking to a friend about you last night.

I miss you.

Cover Stars: Sarah and Tracy, Halloween 1994, at Kevin's loft on 2nd Street. Sarah went as Patti Smith.
Headlining Band: Giant Sand

When It Comes Apart, We're Gonna Have Some Fun, Son...

"Would you leave me alone
My sweet Simone
If I lay on my back
Down below on the track
Remember the night
How I’d wade in the water
Be counting the stars
And starting me over
They shine
Your eyes
Gonna make me rain,
Gonna make you rise
When I’m gone, Baby, don’t you forget it
I did all I did
Just to get through to heaven

Got no mother she can’t find me
Got no father he gonna blind me
Little girls might twitch at the way I itch
But when I burn it’s a son of a bitch

Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone

Make me, shake me, bleed all over
Going down to the ground
In deep black water
Let’s ride suicide
Say what you want, but you make it don’t lie
Don’t let me down, Baby, on a bed of hard thistle
Gonna die when I drown just to have it away
Those lies in my eyes
Push you down in the river till you testify

My mother, she don’t know me
And my father, he can’t own me
Little girls might twitch at the way I itch
But the way I burn is a son of a bitch

Make me, shake me, deep black water
Gonna run through my pain, gonna make it rain
Baby I’m gone, so don’t you forget it
I did all I did just to get through to heaven

Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, all misery gone

If you could hear me love
I'd tell to you my story
To you and only you
So love that you might save me
I woke up from a dream
I woke up I was crying
I saw an animal
With eyes like mine on fire
I saw my own true love
She was a sullen flowers
Was she forget-me-nots
White lilies or red roses
And then from far away
Who's that I see come riding
Upon a pale white horse
Come riding fast as lightning

Oh, If you can hear me love
I'd tell you my story
So that you might save me."

Cover Star: Jessalyn
Headlining Band: The Gutter Twins

My Tornado At Rest

"I wanted to be sure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught
in some moorings. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart. In storms and
at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide
around my fathomless arms, I am unable
to understand the forms of my vanity
or I am hard alee with my Polish rudder
in my hand and the sun sinking. To
you I offer my hull and the tattered cordage
of my will. The terrible channels where
the wind drives me against the brown lips
of the reeds are not all behind me. Yet
I trust the sanity of my vessel; and
if it sinks, it may well be in answer
to the reasoning of the eternal voices,
the waves which have kept me from reaching you."

- "To The Harbormaster", Frank O'Hara

Cover Star: Kellie
Headlining Band: Concrete Blonde

Old Fashioneds

Had a little MAD MEN "party" last night with two friends to watch Episode 12 , since I don't have cable and we couldn't watch the season finale.

We made Old Fashioneds, after we wikipediaed (yes, that's a verb now) exactly how to make them (cherry and orange slice, thank you very much).

And when Mr. Draper ordered one, we toasted and took a drink too.

A little sweet for my taste, but fitting.

Season finale tomorrow night, just one cable-less day late...



Cover Star: Kellie
Headlining Band: Team Sleep